I would doubt that it was the Navy; how could you keep that many people silent about something they had been involved in? The Muslims want people to believe that it was our Navy, while it was clearly Islamists.
When investigators searched the dunes along Jones Beach (one of the possible launching places for the streak reported by eyewitnesses), they found nothing. But a birdwatcher or one of the other people who frequent the dunes found a tripod and launching debris about 2 weeks afterwards.
I was in Europe when Flight 800 was shot down and some of the reports that very night even said that it had been shot down, possibly from the beach or from a boat near the shore, based on the eyewitness reports. When I got back to the US a few days later, the New York press (I lived in NYC at the time) were still talking about it and inteviewing witnesses. And then there was the discovery of this site on LI, a report that disappeared almost immediately.
Another thing that emerged then and which is never mentioned is that normally, an El Al flight left JFK at that time and would have been crossing that space, but it was delayed that night. This and the fact that the newly pro-Islamist Saddam told his people to look for something glorious in the morning (it would have been morning in Iraq) indicates to me that the plane was shot down by Saddam-connected Islamists, they intended to get an El Al plane, and Clinton has covered up since day one.
These theories are all fine and dandy but they don’t conform to military reality whatsoever. We aren’t talking Stinger missiles. It would have to be of the level of a “Standard” missile that is a serious, heavy-duty ship-based weapons system. You don’t just throw one on a motorboat and launch. No terrorist group has ever been known to have ANY of these, let alone in America.